mount slave drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:28:31AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Should I worry that /dev/hdb1 (the partition I'm trying to mount) has a 
> Start and End of 1, and that System is Empty?:

Yes.  That looks VERY wrong.  Maybe gpart can search for the real
partitions and give you what the partition table should be.  Or maybe
the disk is wrong a machine using EFI partitions, or microsoft's dynamic
volumes.

> [root at p733 chris]# /sbin/fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 20.5 GB, 20547841536 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2498 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1         608     4876168+   b  W95 FAT32
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2             609         620       96390   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3             621        2498    15085035   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1216 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1           1           0    0  Empty
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> [root at p733 chris]#

What about 'cat /proc/partitions'?

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